About to enter New Orleans

Hi everyone. This is Kyle Shank, AMERICAblog correspondent on the scene in the Hurricane Katrina disaster area. I arrived last night, hung out in a mega-church set up as a shelter, then met up with Bob Brigham and Macon Phillips for the ride into New Orleans today.

We are in a V-10 Ford Excursion limited edition, aka the Tank, and in the West Bank. Police have machine bednests along highway and the line outside of Wal-mart was far beyond the length of the supercenter.

More to come...